For the first time, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider restrictions on so-called “transgender care” for gender dysphoric minors.
SCOTUS is scheduled to hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a major case weighing a state ban on the medical mutilation and chemical castration of “transgender”-identifying children.
The case, United States v. Skrmetti, centers on a Tennessee law that prohibits pediatric “gender-transitioning treatments,” such as puberty blockers and hormone replacement. Specifically, the legislation (Tennessee SB1) penalizes healthcare providers in the state who continue to perform such procedures on adolescents, subjecting violators to fines, lawsuits, and other forms of legal liability.
Now, the critical question before the highest court in the land is whether the state law violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, as the petitioners are arguing. The state of Tennessee says the law does not discriminate on the basis of gender; rather, it simply sets parameters around age- and use-based regulations.
The case is brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which sued to overturn the Tennessee law on behalf of the parents of three “transgender” teenagers, and a Memphis-based doctor who “treats” patients of the like. Earlier this year, the Biden administration joined the side of the petitioners under a federal law that allows federal intervention in certain cases certified by the attorney general to be of “general public importance.” […]
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